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ZIP Code 85008 · Phoenix, Arizona

Maricopa County · 23,612 counted · 4 districts

Grade schoolBalsz Elementary District57%13,432 of 23,612 homes
High schoolPhoenix Union High School District100%23,612 of 23,612 homes

Each percentage here is a share of the 23,612 homes counted in ZIP Code 85008, not the chance that any one address is in that district. Enrollment follows the street: two houses on opposite sides of the same road can be in different districts, and only the district office can say which.

The districts named for the early grades in ZIP Code 85008, Phoenix, Arizona are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: 1 district arrives for high school that no elementary answer names, and 3 run the early grades and stop. 4 districts hold the 23,612 homes counted here between them, and Phoenix Union High is the largest by homes. Districts holding under half a percent of the homes named at their own level are listed separately below and are not counted in that number. The area sits in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Three districts share the early grades

3 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 85008 at this level. Balsz Elementary is the largest with 13,432 homes; the smallest of them holds 530 homes. Balsz Elementary, Creighton Elementary and Wilson Elementary are named here for grade school and not for high school.

Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 23,612 homes counted in ZIP Code 85008, so one cell is 675 homes, rounded to the nearest whole cell. Cells lit solid are the homes one district holds, and the unlit cells are the homes held by the other districts in the same list.

  • Balsz Elementary District13,432 of 23,612 homes57%
  • Creighton Elementary District9,650 of 23,612 homes41%
  • Wilson Elementary District530 of 23,612 homes2.2%

Scottsdale Unified District and Tempe School District reach into ZIP Code 85008 at the grade school level and hold no home counted in it: the boundary crosses the postal area without picking up a single one.

One district covers high school, and a sliver does not

Phoenix Union High School District is the only high school district holding a measurable share of ZIP Code 85008, with 23,612 of the 23,612 homes counted in the area; 2 districts more are named below the half-percent line. Phoenix Union High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.

  • Phoenix Union High School District23,612 of 23,612 homes100%

Scottsdale Unified District and Tempe Union High School District reach into ZIP Code 85008 at the high school level and hold no home counted in it: the boundary crosses the postal area without picking up a single one.

Have a street address?

A ZIP Code names every district that can serve the area; a street address settles which one serves a home. The Census Bureau geocoder takes an exact address and returns its school districts from the current boundary files, free and with no account.

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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:

  • Phoenix Union High School District NCES ID 0406330 phoenixunion.org (602) 764-0860
  • Balsz Elementary District NCES ID 0401050 balsz.org (602) 629-6400
  • Creighton Elementary District NCES ID 0402430 creightonschools.org (602) 381-6000
  • Wilson Elementary District NCES ID 0409390 wsd.k12.az.us (602) 681-2200

The set of names changes in both directions

Phoenix Union High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Balsz Elementary, Creighton Elementary and Wilson Elementary run the early grades and no more. An address on the wrong street can therefore change district at the change of grade and land in a district that was never part of its elementary answer, while a neighbor two blocks away keeps one name the whole way through.

What one district name costs in 85008

A lookup that answers ZIP Code 85008 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 23,612 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 10,180 homes and for high school one name is right for every home counted. That is the whole difference between this page and a one-line answer: the same federal file, read to the end instead of to the first row.

The districts that reach into 85008

The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Phoenix Union High touches 31 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 23,612 homes inside this one; Wilson Elementary touches 4 areas. Not one of them is ever the only district in a ZIP Code area anywhere in the country: every postal area they touch, they share with somebody. 1 of them has a page here listing every ZIP Code area it reaches.

Where Balsz Elementary goes from here

Balsz Elementary District runs pre-K through grade 8, and it shares 5 of the 6 ZIP Code areas it touches with neighbors, holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1, and is the only district in none of them. Inside its own boundary it holds 15,715 homes over 9 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 85008 is 13,432 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Phoenix Union High School District, across 5 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 85251 it holds 149 of 25,880 homes, or 0.6% of them.

How 85008 compares in Arizona

Across Arizona the boundary file names more than one district in 259 of the 409 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 63% of them, and 72 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 23 areas in Arizona name more than this ZIP Code does and 351 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.

Look up 85008 again, or look up another ZIP Code

The lookup holds every ZIP Code area in the country with homes in it, including the ones with no page of their own. Opening it at 85008 recomputes the same 23,612 homes from the same snapshot, and typing five other digits answers for somewhere else. No server is asked for the answer: the whole index travels with the lookup page itself.

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: one district covers every home counted in 85008, and even then the street is what enrolls a child, because magnet, charter and choice programs ignore the boundary entirely.

District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.

What this site can hand you instead:

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

Where these numbers come from

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.